Exploring the impact of cumulative testing on academic performance of undergraduate students in Spain
Impact
![Google Scholar](/xmlui/themes/Mirage2/images/uji/logo_google.png)
![Microsoft Academico](/xmlui/themes/Mirage2/images/uji/logo_microsoft.png)
Metadata
Show full item recordcomunitat-uji-handle:10234/9
comunitat-uji-handle2:10234/8035
comunitat-uji-handle3:10234/8640
comunitat-uji-handle4:
INVESTIGACIONThis resource is restricted
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11092-014-9208-z |
Metadata
Title
Exploring the impact of cumulative testing on academic performance of undergraduate students in SpainDate
2015Publisher
Springer NetherlandsISSN
1874-8597; 1874-8600Type
info:eu-repo/semantics/articlePublisher version
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11092-014-9208-zSubject
Abstract
Frequent testing provides opportunities for students to receive regular feedback and to increase their motivation. It also provides the instructor with valuable information on how course progresses, thus making it ... [+]
Frequent testing provides opportunities for students to receive regular feedback and to increase their motivation. It also provides the instructor with valuable information on how course progresses, thus making it possible to solve the problems encountered before it is too late. Frequent tests with noncumulative contents have been widely analysed in the literature with inconclusive results. However, cumulative testing methods have hardly been reported in higher education courses. This paper analyses the effect of applying an assessment method based on frequent and cumulative tests on student performance. Our results show that, when applied to a microeconomics course, students who were assessed by a frequent, cumulative testing approach largely outperformed those assessed with a single final exam. [-]
Is part of
Educational Assessment, Evaluation and Accountability, 21015, vol. 27, núm. 2 , pp 153-169Rights
© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2015
© Springer International Publishing AG, Part of Springer Science+Business Media
"The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11092-014-9208-z "
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
info:eu-repo/semantics/restrictedAccess
This item appears in the folowing collection(s)
- TRAD_Articles [353]